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Paintings depicting the French French Revolution that began in 1789 Pages in category "Paintings about the French Revolution" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de paume) by David. The Tennis Court Oath (French: Le Serment du Jeu de paume) is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution.
Marie Antoinette en gaulle (Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress), a 1783 portrait of the queen in a "muslin" dress by Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, the court painter of Queen Marie Antoinette of France, painted Marie Antoinette with a Rose in 1783, six years prior to the outbreak of French Revolution and ten years prior to the eventual beheading of Louis XVI and ...
The Battle of Valmy is an 1826 history painting by the French artist Horace Vernet. [1] [2] It depicts the Battle of Valmy, one of the earliest battles of the French Revolutionary Wars fought on 20 September 1792. [3] The revolutionary French troops defeated an advance by a coalition of Foreign forces under the command of the Duke of Brunswick. [4]
Claude Cholat was a wine merchant living in Paris on the Rue Noyer at the start of the French Revolution in 1789. [1] On the morning of 14 July a large Revolutionary crowd gathered outside the royal prison called the Bastille and in the afternoon fighting broke out between the crowd and the royal garrison. [1]
Oath of the Horatii (French: Le Serment des Horaces) is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and 1785 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. [1] The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical style.
The Revolution had already begun, and all paintings shown at the Salon had to be approved for political acceptability. David's 1788 portrait of Antoine Lavoisier had already been refused a display because the famed chemist was a potentially divisive figure, tied as he was to the Ancien Régime . [ 3 ]
By the time Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People, he was already the acknowledged leader of the Romantic school in French painting. [4] Delacroix, who was born as the Age of Enlightenment was giving way to the ideas and style of romanticism, rejected the emphasis on precise drawing that characterised the academic art of his time, and instead gave a new prominence to freely brushed colour.